Monday, October 17, 2005

Bush: "Duhrrrrrrr..."

Without cable, I can't really watch "The Daily Show," but I get a sense of its brilliance from devotee friends and bits like this, from Tom Tomorrow:

Last night's Daily Show, a rerun from a few weeks back, contained a Bush quote from September 23 that I missed at the time. He's in Texas with Chertoff, discussing Hurricane Rita:

The thing I'm gonna do is, observe the relationship between the state and local government...I'm gonna watch that relationship, it's an important relationship and I need to understand how it works better.

Did I mention he said this in Texas? Where, as Jon Stewart of course pointed out, he was once governor?

My wife and I were discussing this, trying to think of a single Democratic presidential candidate who was as obviously--what's the word I want?--stupid as George W. Bush, and we just couldn't. I have disagreed strongly with plenty of Democratic candidates, but I can't think of one as predictably cringeworthy as GWB.